March 31, 2004
	License Plate
	Now you don't have to go to the slammer to create your own license plates. Just go to the license plate generator, type in the text that you want to appear on you plate, and voila: you have your very own customized license plate. Just print it and stick it on your car... Posted by Guy at 12:40 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 30, 2004
	Pre-Soiled
	These pre-soiled underwear have a secret pocket for keeping your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands! The idea is that nobody will want to search through your dirty underpants, keeping your valuables safe. I wouldn't want to work in the quality assurance department of that company... Posted by Guy at 01:34 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 29, 2004
	iPod Race
	Check out this cool iPod race. BTW: If you have Quick Time installed then notice how fast the movie loads. Posted by Guy at 01:46 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 28, 2004
	Drank Too Much
	Check out this funny commercial for....I won't tell you. You'll find out at the end... Update: it seems that the original clip has been removed. Here is another link to the movie. Thanks to Joe for letting me know. Posted by Guy at 12:12 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 27, 2004
	Fade To Bluegrass
	Fade To Bluegrass is a bluegrass tribute to Metallica. On the tribute CD Iron Horse play several Metallica songs only bluegrass style. Instead of electric guitars there are banjos and mandolins. The site has two short clips of "Enter Sandman" and "Wherever I May Roam " that you can download. If you're a Metallica fan (or a bluegrass fan) then check it out. Posted by Guy at 04:18 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 26, 2004
	SplashShopper
	SplashShopper is another excellent Palm Pilot app from SplashData (the people who brought us SplashID, the great password manager). SplashShopper is a shopping list manager for your Palm Pilot. You can manage different kinds of lists and automatically synchronize them between your desktop and your handheld. So when you notice that you're out of peanut butter you can quickly add it to your shopping list on your PC and have it available on your handheld when you're in the store. The program comes preloaded with a database of many items that you can choose from when you are creating your list (so if you need to buy milk you don't have to manually add a milk entry to the database, there already are tons of items). You can, of course add your own items. One of SplashShopper's best features is that you can add prices per store for every item. So next time you are at the store you can see how much you paid for orange juice at a different store. I've been using SplashShopper for a couple months and haven't found it missing any features, it's just about perfect. Posted by Guy at 04:31 PM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 25, 2004
	Safe Saw
	SawStop is a table saw that automatically stops when it detects contact with skin. The SawStop system works by recognizing the difference in the electrical properties of wood and a user. The system induces a high-frequency electrical signal on the blade of a table saw and monitors this signal for changes caused by contact between the blade and a user's body. Check out the demonstration video on the site, it's quite amazing how the saw blade drops and results in only a small nick in the "finger". Posted by Guy at 12:20 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 24, 2004
	Wooden PC
	If you're tired of plain beige computers then check out these wooden computer components. They have lots of stuff ranging from mice to monitors. BTW: the site was featured in several places on the web so they are having trouble handling the rapid increase in traffic. So if you are having trouble accessing the site then just try again later. Posted by Guy at 01:08 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 23, 2004
	Conkers
	Conkers is a fun flash game. A conker is a ceramic ball on a string. You choose your conker, give it three treatments to make it hard, and then you have three swings at your opponent's conker. The objective is to swing, hit, and break your opponent's conker (before yours breaks). I got 720 and completed 7 people. Posted by Guy at 12:44 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 22, 2004
	Foood
	Nope, that's not a typo: Foood.net is a site with some excellent (and I mean that) icons. It has sets of high quality icons that you can download and even some tutorials with techniques how to create your own amazing icons. Posted by Guy at 01:34 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 21, 2004
	Give Fitts
	I recently read an excellent article over at "Ask Tog" called A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts. It's a quiz for interaction designers that demonstrates the importance of Fitts's Law. There are ten questions (and answers) with different scenarios where Fitts's Law is important. If you're into designing anything that people need to interact with then you'll want to give this a looksy. Posted by Guy at 12:45 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 20, 2004
	Playing With Time
	Check out how a woman grows old over the span of 69 years. It was created by morphing images of the woman from different times in her life (that were taken in the course of 69 years). That site also has other cool time elapsing videos (it is called playingwithtime.org after all). Posted by Guy at 01:38 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 19, 2004
	Personal Monorail
	As a kid, did you ever wish you had a slide in your back yard? Well, how about a monorail? Who the hell came up with this idea? Posted by Guy at 03:00 PM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 18, 2004
	Programmer Fonts
	And if you're not bored enough with fonts, today we have fonts especially for programmers. According to the site: A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. Posted by Guy at 01:47 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 17, 2004
	Typewriter Fonts
	Some more free fonts, this time it's free typewriter fonts. You'd be surprised how many different typewriter fonts there are (the main difference between them is the levels of "dirtiness"). Posted by Guy at 12:56 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 16, 2004
	U R Fired
	How's this for great management: South Korea's third-largest credit card issuer fired 161 people (a quarter of its workforce) via mobile phone text messages! The firm said it had no method for contacting striking staff other than using SMS messages. Next thing you know you'll be getting death notifications by SMS... Posted by Guy at 12:38 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 15, 2004
	End Of Video Games
	There's an excellent article over at pointlesswasteoftime.com about how the video game industry will crash in a few years. David Wong (the author) goes into great detail on why he is sure that "beginning with the 2005 wave of consoles, the video game market is going to crash". A great read if you are into that sort of thing (his writing style is pretty funny). I guess I'm going to sell my Nintendo stocks... Posted by Guy at 12:49 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 14, 2004
	Label Burner
	HP announced a new CD drive that lets you burn labels on a CD (they call the technology "LightScribe"). The way it works is that after you burn the contents of the CD you flip the CD over and the laser burns a picture (that you can of course select) on the top of the CD. You do need to use special CDs that have a special coating on their top side. The process doesn't use any consumable materials (other that the CD itself) so you don't need to buy any toner or ink cartridges, the laser just burns the image onto the CD itself. The drive is expected to cost about $10 more than a regular CD burner and the blank CDs will probably cost about a dime more. It's about time that you could easily create labels for your burnt CDs. Posted by Guy at 12:52 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 13, 2004
	Nostromo
	And if we're already on the subject of weird looking gadgets then take a look at the Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52. This is one of the weirdest looking devices I have ever seen but it looks so cool. Even though the Nostromo may look like a very complicated piece of equipment straight out of NASA, it is actually a game controller for the PC. According to the review at Tom's Hardware, the Nostromo is a great buy (especially at a MSRP of only $39.99). Too bad it's only for the PC and not the PS2 (at this time at least...). Posted by Guy at 01:26 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 12, 2004
	USB Swiss Army Knife
	The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife has just gone hi-tech. The latest tool that has been added to the pocket knife is a USB flash memory stick. It comes in 64MB and 128MB and has the usual scissors, knife, nail file... Next time you're stuck in the wilderness you can whip out your trusty Swiss Army Knife and show your friends a presentation of your family pictures! Posted by Guy at 02:36 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 11, 2004
	Modem Sounds
	This site is for all you broadband users who miss the good old sound of a modem connecting. It feels like 2001 all over again! Posted by Guy at 01:02 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 10, 2004
	Air Flo Mouse
	The Air Flo Mouse is a computer mouse that has a built in fan for cooling off your hand. This could come in useful for those long summer days staring at the computer. The mouse's suggested retail price is $29.99 and they also use the same cooling technology in a PS2 and in a XBox controller (the XBox controller comes in a cool green color). Posted by Guy at 12:40 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 09, 2004
	PS2 Workout
	I just recently started using the treadmill while playing the PS2. But it turns out that somebody else has already thought about this killer combination and invented the gamebike. For $139 you get a set of sensors that you hook up to your bike (you need to setup your bike on rear wheel bike trainer) and attach to your Playstation 2. You can then play just about any speed related game (controlling it with your bike). I wonder if it really works well (usually non-traditional game controllers aren't that fun to use)... Posted by Guy at 01:02 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 08, 2004
	Idea A Day
	Are you always looking for new ideas? If you aren't then move along, this site isn't for you. Move along now... Ok, for all you idea seekers who stayed check out idea-a-day.com. As its name suggests, every day the front page of the site will contain a new idea that you are free to use. This has been going on since August 2000, daily. Here's a good idea that I ran into in their archives: invent an alarm clock that scans radio traffic broadcasts and automatically sets your alarm accordingly. So on a day that there is heavy traffic (or bad weather) your alarm might go off an hour earlier (or not go off at all if there is severe weather). You're free to use any idea that you see there so feel free to browse around. Posted by Guy at 12:29 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 07, 2004
	Superstitions
	Some people are real believers in superstitions. Personally, I don't really believe in any specific ones (at least not any that I'd admit publicly ;-), but for those who are interested then check out oldsuperstitions.com. Actually it's quite amazing how many superstitions they have there (that people inevitably believe). For example, did you know that tying a knot into a handkerchief wards off evil? Or that a dog eating grass brings rain? How bout: the spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die? And all these are just from the front page! Posted by Guy at 01:00 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 06, 2004
	Next Big Thing
	Time.com has a great piece on important inventions in each century . Starting from 1900 they describe the inventions that were most important and influence/d our life the most. And I never thought history could be interesting... Posted by Guy at 01:25 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 05, 2004
	Laundry Rug
	If the Good Lord had meant us to put dirty clothes in a silly basket, then why did he create floors? Go on, admit it. You have that lovely, designery, wickery thing nestling in the corner of your bedroom/bathroom/utility room, empty and weeping with neglect, and yet you still manage to chuck your dirty clothes all over the floor. Then why not use the laundry rug. You throw all your dirty clothes on the laundry rug and then it folds up into a laundry basket so you can take it to the washing machine. Excellent idea! Posted by Guy at 01:10 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 04, 2004
	Food Facts
	Here are some weird food facts that you probably didn't know. For example, did you know that blueberry "Jelly-Bellies" were created especially for former president Ronald Reagan and it takes ten days to make a jelly-bean. You learn something new every day... Posted by Guy at 12:26 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 03, 2004
	Mirror TV
	And if we're on the subject of shiny items then how about this new invention: Philips is coming out with a new LCD screen that turns into a mirror when it's turned off. How's that for space saving... Posted by Guy at 12:15 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 02, 2004
	Crosswalk Buttons
	You know those crosswalk buttons? It turns out that in New York the buttons aren't connected to anything! They disconnected them a long time ago when they started using computer controlled traffic lights. The only place outside where you feel you have control over something and they take that away from us... Actually, here's a good reason why to leave the plastic buttons (that don't actually do anything). Posted by Guy at 12:29 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)

	March 01, 2004
	Laptop Steering Wheel
	Do you need more time to get work done? How about while driving? Then you're in luck! The Executive Laptop Steering Wheel Mount lets you work on your laptop while driving. This is actually a real product! Remember, safety first... Posted by Guy at 12:41 AM | Comments |TrackBack (0)